{"id":154196,"date":"2025-06-03T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154196\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:14:24","slug":"whistledown-hotel-warrenpoint-co-down-hotel-owners-say-failure-to-pay-staff-minimum-wage-was-not-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154196\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistledown Hotel, Warrenpoint: Co Down hotel owners say failure to pay staff minimum wage was \u2018not deliberate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Whistledown in Warrenpoint\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1748934864_908_e2eaf504-89c3-4374-be2e-bfacb4fae7f4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Whistledown in Warrenpoint<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The owners of a hotel and restaurant in Co Down has said a failure to pay the minimum wage to staff was \u201cnot a deliberate act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Whistledown Hotel in Warrenpoint was among 28 firms in Northern Ireland highlighted by the UK Government last week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/business\/jobs\/nearly-30-ni-firms-including-well-known-pub-owner-failed-to-pay-minimum-wage-to-workers\/a1187216653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failing to pay minimum wage to staff<\/a>, in some cases as far back as 2022. In total, around 1,650 workers in Northern Ireland were underpaid almost \u00a3160,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Whistledown in Warrenpoint The owners of a hotel and restaurant in Co Down has said a failure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[778,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-margaret-canning","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114618201756928324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}